September 9, 2010
Ideas
Brian Sutton Wounded Warrior Project
In February, Do One Nice Thing lost a member of our family. Brian Sutton was a generous, kind man and a friend to all. In 2007, he and his wife, Vicki, initiated D1NT’s first project to send school supplies to U.S. service members for Afghan children.
That project continues today. (You can read about it here.) So far, more than 180,000 pounds of school supplies have been sent to service members in Iraq and Afghanistan so the kids there can study.
Brian admired service members, but he was really all about family. He deeply loved Vicki and their family, and his friends have commented that he embraced them like family too.
So Do One Nice Thing has created a project to extend Brian’s legacy of reaching out to service members, and to families. It is The Brian Sutton Wounded Warrior Project. It will benefit the Warrior and Family Support Center at Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC), located at Fort Sam Houston in Texas. BAMC houses a state-of-the-art rehabilitation facility and the sole military burn unit in the U.S.
Spending time with family accelerates a wounded service member’s recovery, and also helps his/her family. So the Support Center is critically important. It provides a "living room" environment with the comforts of home for the Wounded Warriors and their families, who are far away from their own homes.
The families often face severe economic problems and cannot afford food, diapers, and other daily necessities. They also cannot pay for gasoline to make the trip to the hospital from their homes at Fort Hood and elsewhere.
Here’s how you can help:
1. Send a Walmart gift card of any amount, available at Walmart and online, OR
2. Send a check of any amount made out to the Warrior and Family Support Center.* On the memo line write: For gift card in memory of Brian Sutton. The Center will then purchase a gift card, and it will be given to the family of a Wounded Warrior in financial distress.
Mail it to:
Warrior and Family Support Center
Brian Sutton Memorial
3138 Rawley Chamber
San Antonio, TX 78219
Attn: Ms. Judith Markelz
By enabling families to visit their loved ones, you will help Wounded Warriors mend, and you will honor Brian’s memory.
Thank you.
*The Warrior and Family Support Center is a tax-exempt organization.
